Keep it until the fourteenth
For the one who hears about Christ and believes — this one has taken Christ. But he does not sacrifice him and chew him unless five days have first passed. For since a human being has five senses, unless Christ comes to be in each of them, he could not be sacrificed and, having been roasted, be eaten.
Greek
Ὁ γὰρ ἀκούων περὶ X(ριστο)ῦ καὶ πιστεύων, οὗτος ἔλαβεν τὸν X(ριστό)ν, οὐ πρότερον δὲ θύει αὐτὸν καὶ τρώγει μὴ οὐχὶ πρότερον διαγενομένων ἡμερῶν πέντε· πέντε γὰρ οὐσῶν αἰσθήσεων τῶν τοῦ ἀν(θρώπ)ου, εἰ μὴ ἐν ἑκάστῃ αὐτῶν γένηται X(ριστό)ς, οὐκ ἂν δύνηται τυθῆναι καὶ ὀπτηθεὶς βρωθῆναι.
About this text
Origen on the Passover: what the feast means, and how Christians should keep it.
English follows the Greek as printed in Witte (1993), from the page images. OCR of those pages was checked. Damaged lines are marked as gaps, not filled from another edition. This is a reading translation for study, not a new critical edition.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Witte, Die Schrift des Origenes „Über das Passa“ (1993) (Greek · On Pascha, from the page images)
- Checked print OCR of the Witte page images (Greek · Same print)
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